Our paper in Quaternary International just went online today. The pithy takeaway: Ancient dryland farmers in Utah adapted to warming and drying during the MCA but were unable to adapt to increased variability at the MCA-LIA transition, and abandoned the area for maize farming. Because increased variability is one of the near certainties for temperate semi-aridContinue reading “Simulated impact of paleoclimate change on Fremont Native American maize farming in Utah, 850–1449 CE, using crop and climate models”
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AGU Paleoclimatology session
They never know quite where to put me at AGU. But I was very pleased to see that this year others are getting into the same things I have been: (1) strange behavior of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) in the Southwest USA; and (2) computer models! Omid Mazdiyasni (UC Irvine & YSSP2016) came byContinue reading “AGU Paleoclimatology session”
Marcus James Thomson, Ph.D. 